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19 December 1943: Commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Lcdr Robert W. Graham in command

26 April 1946: Decommissioned at Green Cove Springs, Fla. after 2.4 years of service

01 June 1950: Transferred to the Netherlands (MDAP), renamed HNLMS Van Amstel (F.806) (sold in February 1968 to Simons Scheepsslooparij N.V. of Rotterdam for scrapping)

26 September 1950: Struck from the NVR

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Warranted a midshipman on 10 November 1799, William Burrows served in the West Indies in Portsmouth during the Quasi War with France and remained in that man of war when she sailed to Europe in 1800 to bring back the envoys of the United States who had negotiated the treaty ending that conflict. He was in charge of the frigate United States in 1801 and 1802 while that warship was laid up in the Washington Navy Yard. During American wars with the Barbary pirates, he saw Mediterranean service in Constitution, Vixen, Siren, and Essex between 1801 and 1807 and received his commission as a lieutenant on 19 March of the latter year.

At sea in command of Enterprise when war with England was declared in 1812, Burrows cruised along the east coast of the United States in that brig during the first year of the conflict. On 5 September 1813, Enterprise's lookouts sighted the Royal Navy brig Boxer, and the American warship gave chase. When she had drawn within range of her opponent, Enterprise opened fire, starting a fierce engagement in which both Burrows and the captain of the British warship were killed before Boxer surrendered.

Burrows at anchor during the war. (Naval History and Heritage Command Photo #NH 73273, courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1970)

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undated wartime image. The paint job is the standard for new DE's - two shades of blue. Each trip in has changed our color and design of camouflage due to changing conditions

Pat Stephens

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1943

David Buell

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circa 1950: as HNLMS Van Amstel (F.806)

Robert Hurst

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circa 1954: as HNLMS Van Amstel (F.806)

View the USS Burrows (DE 105) DANFS history entry located on the Naval History and Heritage Command website.

Burrow's Commanding OfficersThanks to Wolfgang Hechler & Ron Reeves

Dates of Command

Commanding Officers

1.) 19 Dec. 1943 - 07 Aug. 1944

Lcdr. Robert Wallace Graham, USNR (comm.)

2.) 07 Aug. 1944 - 23 Nov. 1945

Lcdr. John Parkinson, Jr., USNR

3.) 23 Nov. 1945 - 30 Nov. 1945

Lt. David James Thorpe, USNR

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